Waikiwi Gardens Rest Home

Waikiwi Gardens Rest Home We are a small rest home surrounded by beautiful gardens based in Invercargill. We pride ourselves on our community and family-based approach to care.

More than just a place to live...

At Waikiwi Gardens Rest Home we strive to provide a warm and friendly atmosphere where people feel they belong and are happy to call home. We have some of the best caregivers in the aged care business who take real pride in helping to make Waikiwi Gardens the best place in Invercargill. We offer a top class activities program with a huge variety of outtings, crafts and entertainment. With fresh home baking on a daily basis and a huge variety of different meals offered, one of the biggest complaints we hear is how good the food is! Our wonderful chef and cook ensure all dietary needs are met and take real pride in what they serve. With fantastic staff, beautiful meals, and a great social program, you'll find Waikiwi Gardens Rest Home to be a wonderful place to live. All the care and comforts of home...

At Waikiwi Gardens we enable residents to live as independently as they wish but always safe in the knowledge that we provide the very best in nursing care should they need it. Our facilities, and the people that help to run them, are there to provide support and stimulation and to help maximise each and every resident’s physical, intellectual emotional and social well-being.

Our gardens are looking good! A great variety of vegies, herbs and fruit to come our way...nom nom 🍓🫛🥦🍅🥕🥔
27/11/2025

Our gardens are looking good! A great variety of vegies, herbs and fruit to come our way...nom nom 🍓🫛🥦🍅🥕🥔

25/11/2025

We had the amazing Riversong Choir entertain us with Christmas Carols. The residents loved it and were singing away delightfully 🧑🏻‍🎄🎄

Ready or not...the countdown is on til Christmas time! Exactly one month today!!! Here's Judi enjoying a hug with Santa!...
25/11/2025

Ready or not...the countdown is on til Christmas time! Exactly one month today!!! Here's Judi enjoying a hug with Santa!!

24/11/2025

Every year we look forward to this beautiful rose blooming and it never disappoints 🌹🩷

21/11/2025

unsure why FB isnt letting put multiple videos together..but here's the last video....

21/11/2025
21/11/2025

This afternoon for Happy Hour, we had a new entertainer, Maurice Gorton. He was excellent! The residents thoroughly enjoyed listening to him. Have rebooked him back next month....
Here's some of his talent...over the next few posts....

Yesterday afternoon it was a super warm day, so we put some air conditioning on and enjoyed playing Floor Scrabble. We s...
20/11/2025

Yesterday afternoon it was a super warm day, so we put some air conditioning on and enjoyed playing Floor Scrabble. We started off with Donna's suggestion....the word: INTERNATIONAL.
With only a small handful of letters to go, Nurse Jo came into the lounge to give us a helping hand...and she became very happy when she got to put her name on the board!! Well done Nurse Jo as you helped use all the letters up in the end! What a great activity for the residents which helps build teamwork, communication skills with each other, helps the brain keep fresh, along with having some good laughs too!!!! Great work everyone!!!

A new game played this week, Trivia Tic Tac Toe, where there were two teams competing to get a nought/cross on the grid,...
13/11/2025

A new game played this week, Trivia Tic Tac Toe, where there were two teams competing to get a nought/cross on the grid, team Cross won... the residents enjoyed the new game, keeping their minds active... favourite categories were The Human Body and History and General Knowledge....

Happy Melbourne Cup day everyone!🏇🏇 Here's the lovely Judi all dressed up as a neat looking jockey! while displaying som...
03/11/2025

Happy Melbourne Cup day everyone!🏇🏇 Here's the lovely Judi all dressed up as a neat looking jockey! while displaying some of her really interesting items to our residents to enjoy, all to do with horse racing as she had some horses that have won many times!!!!!! 🥇🏅🥇
I do like the colourful pretty fascinators👒 and fashion clothing that people wear to dress up in!👗🎩💃🏇🏇🏇🏇🏇🏇🏇🏇🏇🏇🏇🏇

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25 Ruru Street
Invercargill
9810

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+6432157200

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Waikiwi Gardens is more than just a place to live, it’s a rest home with heart, community and friendly faces. We pride ourselves on our community and family-based approach to care, treating all of our residents with the same respect you’d expect in a home environment. Our rest home is a beautiful and peaceful place, with the surrounding gardens often in bloom and providing a tranquil setting for our residents

The rest home caters for a variety of residents, including respite and palliative care. With a nurse on-call 24 hours a day and some of the best caregivers in the aged care industry, our residents have the best access to care and always safe and looked after. Our facilities, and the people that run them, provide support and stimulation to maximise each and every resident’s physical, intellectual emotional and social well-being. Our rest home and respite care is suitable for DHB-funded residents and respite care is also available for ACC clients.

We offer a busy activity programme with a huge variety of outings, crafts and entertainment. With fresh home baking on a daily basis and a huge variety of different meals offered, one of the biggest complaints we hear is how good the food is. Our wonderful cooks ensure all dietary needs are met and take pride in what they serve.

Waikiwi Gardens Rest Home also offers a day programme called Social Seniors. The programme is an opportunity for those outside of the rest home to come to us for the day, enjoy a hot meal and spend the day with fellow seniors in a range of varied and engaging activities. Transport to and from the rest home is provided.